Anacostia Oral History Project, 1974-1975
Object Details
- Scope and Contents note
- The Anacostia Oral History Project Collection contains 39 oral history interviews with 42 individuals who either grew up in or spent a considerable amount of time in the neighborhood. Interviewees discuss their memories of Anacostia dating back to the 1890s and points of focus include education, occupations, transportation, geographic boundaries, and recreational and community activities. The interviews were conducted and recorded on audiocassettes in 1975 through the Center for Anacostia Studies and the Anacostia Community Museum. Most of the interviews have been digitized and are accessible in the archive on CDs.
- Date
- 1974-1975
- Extent
- 1.38 Linear feet (2 boxes)
- 45 Sound cassettes (45 sound cassettes )
- 6 Sound discs (6 data disk DVD-Rs)
- 67 Sound recordings
- Citation
- Anacostia Oral History Project 1974-1975, Anacostia Community Museum, Smithsonian Institution.
- Type
- Collection descriptions
- Archival materials
- Sound cassettes
- Sound discs
- Sound recordings
- Oral histories (document genres)
- Interviews
- Topic
- African Americans
- African American women
- African American men
- Place
- Anacostia (Washington, D.C.)
- Barry Farms (Washington, D.C.)
- Congress Heights (Washington, D.C.)
- Identifier
- ACMA.09-006
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EAD Collection Results
- Oral History Interview with Ethel K. Graham Greene
- Oral history interview with Ella B. Howard Pearis
- Oral history interview with Elsie M. Patterson
- Oral history interview with Elizabeth Money
- Oral history interview with Charles Greene
- Interviews
- Oral history interview with Earl Shipley
- Anacostia Historical Society meeting
- Anacostia Historical Society meeting
- Oral history interview with (Rev.) James E. Coates
- Oral history interview with Marguerite and James Johnson
- Oral history interview with Floyd Jenkins
- Oral history interview with Louise Sayles Ball
- Anacostia Historical Society meeting
- Oral history interview with Raymond Davenport Fillius
- Oral history interview with Ruth Hoffman King
- Oral history interview with (Rev.) James Banks for the Bethlehem Centennial Project
- Oral history interview with Clifton Pleasant
- Anacostia Historical Society meeting
- Oral history interview with Hortentia Harris
- Oral history interview with Thomas W. Turner
- Anacostia Historical Society (AHS)
- Oral history interview with John W. and Everson Patterson
- Oral history interview with Almore Dale